Blurb: So many frogs. So few princes.
Every single (and soon-to-be-single) woman knows the Dating Horror Stories. The
guy who charms your panties off before he bolts. The funeral planner with a
foot fetish. The Early Ejaculator. Or that filmmaker looking for a soul
mate—provided you don't mind he lied about his height, his weight, his wife,
and... oh look, a micro-penis. How nice.

The bad news is that these guys exist. The good
news? There are ways to find them, avoid them, and concentrate your energies on
non-fuckwits. Who, as it turns out, also exist. Hurrah!

From deciphering Man Speak to the sexy perks of
30-year-old men, Catfishing 101, navigating hookup culture, and the safety
precautions every woman should take, author Alethea Spiridon taps into her own
hilarious—and occasionally heart-crushing—experiences in the dating world.
Funny, forthright, and hopeful, Kissing
Strangers is a survival-based how-to guide about looking for love online
... and how to separate the men from the frogs.

Praise for
Kissing Strangers:“I
absolutely loved reading this book! Funny and engaging, this is a great guide
for women who are getting their toes wet into the online dating pool. It’s
funny, informative, compelling. I wish I had read this when I was online
dating. It would have helped me a lot. I made a lot of those mistakes!” Bestselling author, Carmen Falcone

To Find a Prince You Have
to

Kiss Some Toads

Back on the Block

I was curious and the solution was easy. Here were tons of
potential suitors online. Just pick one, right?

Nope.

It means diving in and wading through thousands of men to
hopefully come out with a few you won’t mind giving up a few hours for.

I joined Match.com for eighty dollars and three months, set up a
picture (albeit an older one; yeah, I did that my first time), and wrote a
brilliantly edgy, smart ass, and to the point profile. The messages and winks
started rolling in.

Finding a decent man is hard work.

I sent my brother a text
one night: Are men as awful as I remember?

His response blew me away: Oh sure. Good men are hard to find.
That is very accurate. That’s why I have few friends. We know that too and
avoid those guys.

Ha! Well, there you have it. A good man is hard to find. If
I intend to find one (and I do), I can’t give up.

Three hundred days to a wakeup

I decided to go in hard for a year and see what was out there, how
it worked, how men worked. What this dating thing was really all about and
like. This is part of my story and what I’ve discovered along the way. Learn
from it. Laugh at it.

Girlfriend to girlfriend, this is what I know and wish someone had
told me.

You’ve
Decided to Try Online Dating …Great!

Once you’ve decided to try online dating, you need to figure out
which sites to go on. Each site has a different vibe and feel to it, and the
only way you can effectively gauge that is by going on and figuring out what
you like…and don’t.

My first bit of insight
for you is this: Dating is a numbers game.

It’s as simple as that.
Dramatic? Not in the least! Come back after you read this in full, and after
you online date a bit, and see if you don’t agree. I want you to have fun
kissing strangers, but I want you to go in with a realistic vision too. I
want you to know how to online date like a boss.

Date by the numbers. That’s how men do it! And on this battlefield,
there are fewer men for every woman. Like three women for every man. Ugh.
Seriously. We’re literally duking it out on the battlefield. But let’s not!
Please. We can share (and some of you love doing that, legitimately). That
being said, the sad truth is that the odds are not in our favour, it seems. But
they can be if…

We date like a man! You
might get rejected, but you’ll be rejected from the guys you want a
chance with. If you simply wait for guys to reach out to you, you might only
hear from the guys you already know you don’t want.

So… get on the sites I
list below and get on them all even. Rotate between three and four. Play by
those damn numbers, because that’s how men do it and that’s how you’ll increase
your chances of getting the guy.

About Alethea Spiridon:

Alethea is a
writer and editor (lots of romance books, so many) out of Ontario, Canada. When
her marriage fell apart she realized she had to get back out there and figure
out how to date again or accept a life of eating from the Dinner For One menu
option permanently. The book in your hands (or on your screen) is the result of
that research. If it saves one woman (you!) from the landmines out there in the
DatingVerse, then she’s done her job. For more bits of dating advice and man
mysteries solved, visit her website at www.littleblackhook.com.